Steam-pressure cooker



June 17, 1930. HA H MOT 1,765,072

. STEAM PRESSURE COOKER Filed Sept. 19, 1928 Patented June 17, 1930 UNITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE TAKIGHI EASEIMbTO, OF KAMAKURA-GUN KTANAGAWA, JAPAN STEAM-PRESSURE COOKER Application filed September 19, 192 8. Serial No. 306,996.

This invention relates to the improvements in steam-pressure cookers and has for its objects a cooker lighter in weight and handler in use than those hitherto known.

The construction of my invention consists.-

' mainly of the following parts namely; the body of cooker made of aluminium or other metals, two handles, (hereinafter called body-handle) each placed opposite to the other and having its arms on two sides loosely fitted to two pieces of plates each of which has a wing'or ear, and is riveted to the body of the cooker at its upper part and on its outside, the said two wings having grooves into any of which the arms of each handle which has curvatures, are made to fit. by their resilient action produced when the ridges of curvatures are forced upon, and slid on over those ofthe grooves, so 2 that the handles by the above operation can be held at any desired position or angle.

The annexed drawings illustrate an example ofone form, among many, of the a prlication of my invention.

. half in a vertical section. Fig. 2 shows a body-handle 'inan oblique position.

' To describe in detail the construction of the cooker, the body of the cooker 1 has a pair of plates 2 fixed, each opposed to the other, to the surface of the said body di rectly below its rim or edge. The wings 3 and 4 extending outward of the plates each having a hole 5 therethrough are pressed and bent in undulatin lines so that several concave parts 6 and% the holes are fittedloosely the arms 9 and 10 of'body-handle's 8 the ends of which are partly so bent. that the said parts 11 and 12 act to ti htly press upon the lid 13 and further t at they can be forced, by their resilient actlon, up and down upon the face of the wings upon which a pressure is borne and at the same time canretain their position at a required angle whenever they are left to remain in an one of the said concave parts or grooves o the wings 6. The lid 13. is tightly pressed on the body of the cooker, by the bent parts '11 and 12 of the 6 body-handle eng ging the depressed porings of the ears, and said legs dispose the inside of the ears so that they enga e Fig. 1 is t e ont view of the cooker showing its right are produced. To

pair of spaced ears extending outwar y therefrom, each her being prov1ded with an opening and having grooves extending radially from said opening upon the 1nner slde of the ears, and a handle comprising a shaped member made of resilient material and having its legs journaled in the o n-, on

the radial grooves and permit the ban le to be sustained in different positions.

2. In a cooker construction of the character described, avcooker body, a hd there-'- for, a lurality of plates secured to the outer side 0 the body, each plate havmg a pan ofspaced earsextending outwardly therefrom, each ear provided with an opemng and having grooves extending radially from go said opemng upon the inner faces of the ears, and a handle comprising a U-shaped member, made of resilient material and having its legs journalled in the opemngs of the ears said legs bent abruptly between their .ends to rovide a clamping shoulder I v to engage the hdto clam the same 1n pos1- tion on the body, when t e handle is swung to upright pos1tion, said legs disposed on the inside of the ears whereby to en age the radial grooves and permit the ban eto beheldin different angular positions. 3. 'In a cooker constructionv of the character described, a cooker body, a domeshaped lid therefor'having a depressed por- 95 tion adjacent its periphery, the rim of sa1d lid beyond the depression adapted to fit on the edge of the body, a plurahty of pans ofspaced apart ears projecting outwardly from the body, each ear having an opening, 1.90

a. handle comprising a U-shaped member made of resilient material and having its 1e pivoted in the openings of the ears, 831d legs being abruptly bent between their 5 ends to form clamping shoulders adapted to frictionally engage the lid within. its depressed portion, when swung to upright po- I sition,'whereby to clamp the lidin position on the body.

In testimony whereof ,I have afiixed my signature.

TAKICHI HASHIMOTO. 

